Summer's Underway!

I am quickly learning that having a one year old in the summer means dirty knees, dirty feet, dirty hands, DIRTY fingernails and toenails, at least two different outfits every day and plenty of baths... and I'm just talking about me, Quinton is twice as dirty! The boy loves everything to do with the outdoors and anything to do with getting his hands dirty! This last week temperatures have been flirting with the low 80s and we have been seizing the opportunity for lots of outside play, plenty of freeze pops, and watermelon (some new sticky favorites)!

I think this picture looks like he is posing for soccer pictures, one knee down, hands on the ball! The boy is a natural athlete :)
Playing bean bags with his friend Leighton.

Quinton has also made it clear that his favorite letter in the alphabet is B! He strongly favors any word beginning with the letter B and enjoys saying "Ball" "Book" "Baby" "Bye bye" It is so fun to see all that he is learning. We love to pick dandelions (especially the fluffy white ones) and from watching me he now knows to try and blow on it and see the little seeds fly, although his blowing is more like spitting and usually half of them end up stuck to his lip, but my point being that he is learning and growing so much!

Quinton has developed a strong love for two more things (besides his wonderful parents and the great outdoors). He loves dogs and babies. The boy goes CRAZY when he sees a dog. It doesn't matter if it's big or small, ugly or cute, he just loves dogs. It's a good thing that we have some nice neighbors and friends with dogs because there is no way that we are getting a dog. But it sure is fun to watch him get so excited (I'll have to get some pictures for you all). And the second thing... babies... We were watching his cousin Hudson the other day and Quinn was so distracted by him that he could not even eat his lunch he just wanted to get down and watch him. Hopefully this is a sign of how he will be with Wee Rude #2, although his love of babies might change when the baby is around all the time. We will just have to wait and see!

All I can say for this next picture is Welcome to Summer! I think Quinton is going to have some curls!